However, in the hours before his death, various media outlets incorrectly reported that he had already died, when TMZ claimed that he had been taken off life support, prompting an angry response from his daughter on Instagram.

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Tom Petty performing earlier this year

Singling out one such outlet in particular [Rolling Stone], she wrote: “My dad is not dead yet but your fucking magazine is.”

Accusing them of doing “zero research” and having a “Trump vibe”, she continued: “How dare you report that my father has died just to get press... I will fucking shit down your throat and your family’s.

“This is my father not a celebrity. An artist and human being. Fuck you.”

In life, Tom was best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

The band turned out over a dozen studio albums and a steady string of hits over the course of their decades-spanning career, which included ‘Don’t Do Me Like That’, ‘Refugee’, ‘Free Fallin’ and ‘American Girl’.